Using ath0 as bridge in VMware... or almost

10 Oct 2006

Well I couldn’t make my Atheros (ath0) work as a bridged network with VMware… but I made a workaround which I want to share with you guys. Anyways I’ll have it documented if I cant remember what I did later on. I have installed VMware on my Ubuntu laptop and a edgy-alternative (server) as a guest OS within VMware. The way I did this was making my laptop into a router between the “VMware host only” net and my wireless net.

You need to have configured a host only network for your VMware machines, mine is called vmnet1 and is using the network:

On my VMware guest I have configured eth0 to have the static ipadress 192.168.154.2 and to use 192.168.154.1 as default gateway. The way you set this up depends on you guest OS, but you can also do this manually with: